Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-24
WASHINGTON.

The Senate Committee on Printing,
by a vote of two to one, has decided to report
adversely the nomination of Public Printer
Benedict, and he will probably be rejected
The fight against him, says Washington
special has been made by the Typographical
Union through its local representatives, and
the objections advanced have been many. MIR.
Benedict is not practical printer in the mean
ing of the law, which requires that the man at
the head Of this great institution shall be one.
He has been the publisher OF a country
newspaper but never learned tho trade
and never worked at it, although in
his business he has picked up n general
knowledge of the art. He is not member
Of the union. He has not recognized the
union IN the mann cement of the Office, and hos
got the whole labor element down on him be-
cause of some petty indiscretons. He has APP
pointed to positions under him as many as
thirty persons from the town where he lived
when he GOT this Office little village in New
York, and has dismissed old and influential
members of the union TO give them places He
has had the big-head to an unlimited extent,
and coming from little country weekly news
paper Office to DO the manager OF the biggest
printing institution in the world, he has an idea
that he IL great man as the Presi-
dent Of the United States. He has treated the
Senators like ordinary applicants for ONCE, ana
they do not relish such conduct after the defer
entail manners Of Rounds and his staff An
other mistake Benedict has made is to attribute
all the bad management at the printing office TO
the condition in which things we're left by his
predecessor. It could not be expected that o
new man would como in and get on without
friction, and complaint was natural, but Bene-
dict tells every one, and wrote q letter to Con-
gress, charging all the blame to Rounds and
the latter has good many friends in the Sem
ate, who have resented this sort OF scapegoat
business. and they are for rejection.
The President has allowed the act
appropriating 800, 900 year to provide arms
and equipments for the militia to become a
law without his signature.
Secretary Manning called at the
White House last week and placed his rosig-
nation in the hands of the President The
letter Of resignation or the name of Mr.. Man
ning's successor will probably not be made
public for some time
The conferrees representing the Sen
ate and the House havo finally reached an
agreement concerning the pending bill for the
suppression of polygamy in Utah, says q
Washington dispatch. The bill passed by tho
Senate provided that the Mormon Church
should be governed by trustees appointed by
the President That was an unwise provision
and in conference it has been rejected
The requirement that all marriages in Utal
shall be matters Of public and official rec
ord will assist prosecutors in the perform
ance of their duty. The most i'm
portant paragraphs of the bill as itnow stand
are those which repeal the charters Of tn
Mormon Church and the Mormon Immigra
ton Society, and instruct the Attorney Gen
eral TO proceed in the courts for the recover!
of all the church property which was not &C
quired in accordance with the laws of tn
United States Section 1890 of the Revise'
Statutes is as follows: @No corporation or as
ISOLATION for religious or charitable purpose
shall acquire or hold real estate in any Terri
tory during the existence of the Territoria
Government Of greater value than $4,000
and all real estate acquired or held by sue
corporation or association contrary heret
shall be forfeited and escheat to the Unite
States"
The first pension to o survivor Of tn
Mexican war, under tho recent law, was grant
ed to Senator Williams, OF Kentucky
The Secretary of the Interior, i
recommending the establishment of an add
tional pension agency in view Of the passag
of the Mexican bill, points to New Orleans a
the moat auitable location